Eye of Judgment 2

Gameplay

Through use of an included "9 Fields" table mat featuring 3x3 rectangular grid, and special trading cards encoded with CyberCode matrix code; players conquer a playfield by employing various creatures and spells, taking turns playing cards of their choice strategically on the mat, and performing actions through gestures that are captured through the PlayStation Eye camera, which is mounted on a special stand (also included with the game). The first player to occupy five spaces (more than half the field) wins the match.

On each turn, players can move a card, changing its position and/or orientation. The cards are divided into two main classes: creature cards and spell cards. When a creature card is placed face-up on the grid, the creature is "summoned", and displayed perched on top of the field. Creatures have different offensive and defensive levels depending on their orientation on the field, and are more vulnerable to attacks from the side or behind. During an attack, the view switches from the field view to a "battle mode", in which the two battling creatures are shown battling. Spell cards can be used to attack other creatures, or claim or cause an effect on a space.

Each of the nine fields, as well as most cards, are categorized by one of five elements. The elements are fire, water, earth, wood, and Biolith. In the default field configuration, the center field is always Biolith, and the PS3 chooses the elements of the other 8 fields at random. Other "locations" are available, each one favoring a different element. Fire and water are opposing elements, as are earth and wood. Creatures played on a field that corresponds to their element, such as a fire creature on a fire field, get an automatic bonus of +2 points to life, making them significantly tougher to kill. Creatures played on a field of their opposite element automatically lose 2 points of life, giving them a serious disadvantage. In fact, if a creature with 2 life points or less is played on its opposite element, it immediately dies. Biolith cards are neutral, and gain no bonus or penalty to life by being placed on any field. Each of the nine fields has a second element associated with it. This element is partially revealed on the edge of the field. That second element becomes active when certain cards cause the field to be "flipped". The original element then becomes inactive. It is not uncommon for the second element to be the original element's opposite.

Most actions in the game cost "mana". This includes summoning creatures, casting spells, attacking, and rotating a friendly creature that is in play. At the beginning of each player's turn, they gain 2 points of mana. If a creature is killed, it is moved to the discard pile and its owner gains 1 point of mana.
There are other cards in the game that allow a player to gain mana in various ways.


Features
The game features a profile mode in which players can hold cards in front of the camera and view their profiles; with information on health points, attack points, and special abilities and effects. In this mode, players can interact with the creatures, with the creature performing an attack action when poked. The game will also feature a simplistic "Rock, Paper, Scissors"-style mode for younger players

Set 1 will be bundled with a playing mat, the stand for holding the PlayStation Eye, a starter pack consisting of 30 summoning cards and 4 function cards, and an eight-card booster pack. All starter packs will contain the same selection of cards, while the booster packs will consist of random summoning cards. Booster packsa[›] and pre-constructed theme decksb are available for purchase separately by Wizards of the Coast. 110 different card types will be available for Set 1; each expansion pack will add support for approximately 100 new card types.

Two-player competitive matches can be played online. As a prohibitive measure against cheating the card draw, players' summoning decks are registered and saved by the game. In online matches, the random draw is handled virtually using the registered deck data. The cards are then played as normal. To prevent registering the same card multiple times as different copies, duplicate cards must be presented simultaneously when registering. In response to questions regarding possible counterfeiting of cards, marketing director Christy Newton stated that measures are incorporated in the recognition technology and in the printing of the cards to prevent color photocopies from being usable. Despite this, success has been reported using standard photocopies and hand-drawn copies

Development
When asked in an interview at E3 2006, Eye of Judgment producers Kazuhito Miyaki and Yusuke Watanabe answered that that the game had been in development for three years; of which the previous year had been focused on graphics development, and the two years before that were spent developing the gameplay mechanics on paper. The developers elaborated that technological tests were conducted at the start of the development, and that one of the main areas of development was currently getting the game to properly recognize the cards on the play mat.

Regarding the implementation of the CyberCode matrix code, Miyaki stated in a 2007 interview that working with the technology was challenging, noting that it started at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, featuring a more complicated barcode system where the initial implementation used "two supercomputers and high vision cameras", and wasn't practical for home game machines. According to Miyaki, "It had a whole mile to go, and to get from there to now has been very difficult."

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